Permian Shale News

Despite being halved in the past year, the Permian Basin’s rig count heads the upswing with more rigs than any other US region. It’s been a rough year for rig counts in every shale play across the country, and the Permian Basin has been no exception. In the past 12 months, capped August 7 2015, the Basin suffered a loss ...

AZTEC — As many local growers drew irrigation water from their ditches Saturday for the first time since a plume of acid mine waste flowed through the area a week ago, farmers and ranchers in Navajo Nation were still waiting for more test results to show that San Juan River water on the reservation is safe for drinking, watering fields, ...

FARMINGTON — San Juan County officials have lifted the ban on use of the Animas and San Juan rivers while residents of the Navajo Nation are advised to refrain from using river water for irrigation and livestock. Access to the Animas and San Juan rivers in San Juan County were reopened Saturday night for irrigation, recreation and pumping into both ...

FARMINGTON — San Juan County officials have lifted the ban on use of the Animas and San Juan rivers while residents of the Navajo Nation are advised to refrain from using river water for irrigation and livestock. Access to the Animas and San Juan rivers in San Juan County were reopened Saturday night for irrigation, recreation and pumping into both ...

FARMINGTON — Regional organizations are continuing to accept donations to help individuals impacted by the restrictions placed on the use of the Animas and San Juan rivers. Both rivers were contaminated after more than 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste was released from the Gold King Mine in Colorado on Aug. 5. Linda Mickey, executive director of San Juan ...

FARMINGTON — Regional organizations are continuing to accept donations to help individuals impacted by the restrictions placed on the use of the Animas and San Juan rivers. Both rivers were contaminated after more than 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste was released from the Gold King Mine in Colorado on Aug. 5. Linda Mickey, executive director of San Juan ...

The Bureau of Land Management near Farmington will continue to issue oil and gas permits, despite requests from nearby environmentalists to halt development permits. The Associated Press reports U.S. District Judge James Browning rejected the proposal Friday. Environmentalists’ push to halt the area’s oil and gas development has spanned several months. The BLM received a 34-page letter last October drafted ...

CONROE, Texas — A series of explosions rocked an oil filed chemical supply company north of Houston on Friday, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies. DrillChem said no one was in the plant on the eastern fringe of Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston, at ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — A Central Texas prosecutor has begun serving 10 days in jail for contempt of court for violating a gag order in a 2009 murder case. Williamson County jail records show District Attorney Jana Duty was being held Saturday. An attorney for Duty originally said the jail sentence and $500 fine would be appealed, but the prosecutor ...

Executives of Occidental Petroleum Corp., on Thursday reported finding savings by extracting more oil for less money and reinvesting that money in the Permian Basin, where the company is the biggest oil producer in the region. Oxy, as the company is known, saved about $450 million by cutting costs during the first half of the year, and it channeled that ...

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